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Richard Matheson has 16 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1990s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Duel.
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The Pit and the Pendulum
1961 · Movie · Writer
Top 11%MGM+ · Included

Somewhere in Time
1980 · Movie · Writer
Top 14%Prime Video · Included

House of Usher
1960 · Movie · Writer
Top 15%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Tales of Terror
1962 · Movie · Writer
Top 18%MGM+ · Included

Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983 · Movie · Writer
Top 20%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Last Man on Earth
1964 · Movie · Writer
Top 33%Prime Video · Included
Traveling businessman David Mann angers the driver of a rusty tanker while crossing the California desert. A simple trip turns deadly, as Mann struggles to stay on the road while the tanker plays cat and mouse with his life.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Dennis Weaver, Jacqueline Scott, Eddie Firestone

A dangerous combination of radiation and insecticide causes the unfortunate Scott Carey to shrink, slowly but surely, until he is only a few inches tall. His home becomes a wilderness where he must survive everything from spiders living in the cellar to his beloved cat.
Dir. Jack Arnold · With Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent

In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.
Dir. Roger Corman · With Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara Steele

Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early twentieth century. Becoming more and more obsessed with her, by self-hypnosis he manages to travel back in time—where he meets her.
Dir. Jeannot Szwarc · With Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer

Convinced that his family is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hellbent on stopping his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from expanding. When her fiancé Philip Winthrop arrives at the crumbling estate to claim his bride, Roderick goes to ruthless—even deadly—lengths to keep them apart.
Dir. Roger Corman · With Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey

A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic, and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove or disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad, and it is up to the team to survive a full week in isolation, and solve the mystery of the Hell House.
Dir. John Hough · With Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill

Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe: 1) A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. 2) A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competition, but finds the man's attention to his wife worthy of more dramatic action. 3) A man dying and in great pain agrees to be hypnotized at the moment of death, with unexpected consequences.
Dir. Roger Corman · With Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone

A woman who may be a witch defends her husband from forces attempting to harm him.
Dir. Sidney Hayers · With Peter Wyngarde, Janet Blair, Margaret Johnston

An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the "Twilight Zone" TV series—"Kick the Can", "It's a Good Life" and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"—and one original story, "Time Out."
Dir. John Landis, Joe Dante, Steven Spielberg, George Miller · With Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, Scatman Crothers

The powers of good are pitted against the forces of evil as the Duc de Richelieu wrestles with the charming but deadly Satanist, Mocata, for the soul of his friend. Mocata has the knowledge and the power to summon the forces of darkness and, as the Duc de Richelieu and his friends remain within the protected pentacle, they are subjected to ever-increasing horror until thundering hooves herald the arrival of the Angel of Death.
Dir. Terence Fisher · With Christopher Lee, Leon Greene, Patrick Mower

When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.
Dir. Ubaldo Ragona, Sidney Salkow · With Vincent Price, Franca Bettoia, Emma Danieli
A horror anthology containing three stories: a female college professor is aggressively pursued by one of her students; a prudish brunette determines that her free-spirited blonde sister is evil; and a woman's night turns upside down after she purchases an ancient Zuni fetish doll.
Dir. Dan Curtis · With Karen Black, Robert Burton, John Karlen

An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced to pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people, which brings absurd results.
Dir. Jacques Tourneur · With Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff

A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help.
Dir. Roger Corman · With Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff
Mac, the two-fisted, savvy cop finds that he's being saddled with a new partner, a known burnout, to work with him on a new and difficult case. The new partner is Ellis, an amazing detective, one who puts Sherlock Holmes to shame with his lightning-fast deductions. But he keeps assuming the personalities of entire casts of Television shows. This can be a problem when people begin shooting at them.
Dir. Bob Clark · With Gene Hackman, Dan Aykroyd, Dom DeLuise
A giant thirty-five-foot shark becomes trapped in a SeaWorld theme park and it's up to the sons of police chief Brody to rescue everyone.
Dir. Joe Alves · With Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Simon MacCorkindale
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